Presentation for Nevada State SHRM Conference, October 25, 2012

2. Next 60 Minutes
• Bret Simmons – 20 minutes
– Why you need to be on LinkedIn
– What to look for in a good profile
• Steve Blackhall – 20 minutes
– Passive search
– Case study
• Questions – 20 minutes

4. More Recent Statistics
• 175 million total users
• Adding 175,000 profiles a day
• Executives from all Fortune 500 companies
• 2 million company pages
• 20 million students and recent college
graduates – fastest growing demographic
• 5 billion people searches projected 2012

5. Now that you know the
http://www.edbatista.com/2011/07/self-
monitoring-and-authenticity.html
numbers, why do you need
to be on LinkedIn?

6. Strategic Imperative

8. Organizations should not be
asking how social media are
making them money; they should
be asking how social media are
making them better
Richard Binhammer
Dell, July 2011

9. Employees
Customers
Suppliers

10. Without engagement, we
cannot compete for relevance.
Without relevance, we cannot
compete.
Brian Solis, July 15, 2011